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re: Poll: Six-figure earners feel they’re in ‘survival mode’
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:21 pm to JohnnyKilroy
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:21 pm to JohnnyKilroy
I think you had a better than normal upbringing. That’s great but it does skew your perceptions of normal both in the past and present.
I get inflation. It’s always there. Sometimes high and sometimes low. But inflation is not the holy grail of metrics unless you are talking about hyperinflation.
I get inflation. It’s always there. Sometimes high and sometimes low. But inflation is not the holy grail of metrics unless you are talking about hyperinflation.
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:24 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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no, no it does not
What years did you attend to ascertain this information?
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:26 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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What years did you attend to ascertain this information?
I’ve been in or around the accounting world for nearly 2 decades, including being on the board for two universities in Louisiana. LSU-S is no better than 4th in the state as far as accounting schools, in a state that doesn't have great accounting schools
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:27 pm to UptownJoeBrown
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I think you had a better than normal upbringing.
I did.
But my parents and my wife’s parents had extremely average upbringings and they both experienced several weekend regional vacations growing up. Their parents (our grandparents) all had average careers.
Again, at what point was it abnormal for Americans to travel regionally for vacation? You keep saying it wasn’t normal back then. When is then?
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:29 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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JohnnyKilroy
You will eat ze beans and ze rice and be happy.
No vacations or happiness until you are dead.
- UptownJoeBrown
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:30 pm to jclem11
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You will eat ze beans and ze rice and be happy. No vacations or happiness until you are dead. - UptownJoeBrown
These guys tell you how everyone is lazy and nothing is wrong and it’s all individuals fault in these threads and then write manifestos on the poli board about the end of American society and don’t realize they’re contradiction themselves.
This post was edited on 11/19/25 at 3:32 pm
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:31 pm to jclem11
You will own nothing and be happy USED to be a pejorative phrase on this board.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:33 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Inflation was a convenient talking point until Trump won. Now it’s back to bootstraps, avocado toast, and Netflix.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:35 pm to NIH
Bro you are forgetting the hands down number 1 reason why people can’t afford a house these days and it’s literally right in front of your face.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:38 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
They always make it so personal
We’re not saying we should be able to vacation whenever and wherever we want
We’re just observing how brutal it’s become. I don’t want to America to be a place where you have to make a high income, statistically speaking, to be able to bring your kids to Houston for a baseball game
We’re not saying we should be able to vacation whenever and wherever we want
We’re just observing how brutal it’s become. I don’t want to America to be a place where you have to make a high income, statistically speaking, to be able to bring your kids to Houston for a baseball game
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:40 pm to JohnnyKilroy
Well it also depends on how often you vacation and where you vacation and it defines what you think is normal. You state you had a better than normal upbringing. Your opinion is clouded.
Of course it’s not abnormal to go on a vacation. It’s not normal how people vacation today. Got an invitation to a destination wedding….on the other side of the planet! Not going. My dental hygienist had a destination wedding to some island in the Caribbean. Now her friend has a destination wedding in Costa Rica that she is going too. That’s not normal vacation/travel for their occupations and for the past.
Sorry you feel in “survival mode”. All I can say is make more money or spend less. Money isn’t everything you know.
Of course it’s not abnormal to go on a vacation. It’s not normal how people vacation today. Got an invitation to a destination wedding….on the other side of the planet! Not going. My dental hygienist had a destination wedding to some island in the Caribbean. Now her friend has a destination wedding in Costa Rica that she is going too. That’s not normal vacation/travel for their occupations and for the past.
Sorry you feel in “survival mode”. All I can say is make more money or spend less. Money isn’t everything you know.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:41 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Bro is acting like my 3 night trip to small town georgia is equivalent to spending a week on the French Riviera.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:42 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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Can someone pull up the thread where roger claimed he built his own house by himself in his spare time as a college student? I’m 99% sure he said that was in Baton Rouge while attending the real LSU.
Working on it, but he did reference this the other day as luck would have it. Not only did he build his own house from nothing but books, but his entire family did the same!
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Correct. sold it and lived on it for two years when I moved to Alaska. Its carpentry. Men can do that (you excluded of course) My youngest daughter and her husband did the same. As did my ex father in law. Thats who I got the books and skills from.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:43 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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But my parents and my wife’s parents had extremely average upbringings and they both experienced several weekend regional vacations growing up. Their parents (our grandparents) all had average careers. Again, at what point was it abnormal for Americans to travel regionally for vacation? You
Yea most older folks I know were middle to below middle class growing up and all went on regional vacations in the 60s and 70s
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:43 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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be able to bring your kids to Houston for a baseball game
That is a luxury in my book. If you don’t think it is, then I’m sure you are spending money on some other things that I would consider no so smart.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:43 pm to UptownJoeBrown
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Well it also depends on how often you vacation and where you vacation and it defines what you think is normal. You state you had a better than normal upbringing. Your opinion is clouded.
I’m talking about going to a small town in Georgia.
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Sorry you feel in “survival mode”. All I can say is make more money or spend less. Money isn’t everything you know.
Where is this coming from?
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:44 pm to UptownJoeBrown
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Well it also depends on how often you vacation and where you vacation and it defines what you think is normal.
$1,500 to go to a fricking baseball game on a long weekend 4 hours away isn’t normal, or shouldn’t be anyway.
How this is a difficult concept is beyond me
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:45 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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Bro is acting like my 3 night trip to small town georgia is equivalent to spending a week on the French Riviera.
I didn’t say that. You’re being really hyperbolic so you can appear right.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:46 pm to UptownJoeBrown
No shite it’s a luxury, but a pretty small one
Why are you acting like people from Louisiana weren’t going to Houston or Florida for an occasional weekend until recently?
Why are you acting like people from Louisiana weren’t going to Houston or Florida for an occasional weekend until recently?
Posted on 11/19/25 at 3:47 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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$1,500 to go to a fricking baseball game on a long weekend 4 hours away isn’t normal, or shouldn’t be anyway.
Well go then. Seems pretty important to you. I don’t care if you blow $1500 to see millionaires play a game. I think it’s stupid though. You do you.
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